Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — Page 3

FREE RAW MATERIALS.

WHAT FREE HIDES HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. I urge Increase in Exports of Leather and Loots and shoes—English Buyers in the American Market—A Strong Case lor Free Raw Materials. The wisdom of the policy of free raw materials is well illustrated in the case of leather. Hides were pat on the free list nearly twenty years ago, and our exports of leather and leather goods have steadily increased ever since then, reaching during the liscal year ending June 30, 18<J0, the total of §12,438,000. These exports wiH be still larger during the fiscal year now drawing to a close. On the subject of our fore'gu market for leather, the Boston Boot and Shoe Recorder says: “Foreigners have become steady purchasers of shoe-making material from America The future growth of the traffic is certain to be continuous and rapid. There are thosq, in tho leather trade who feel that in another ten years the volume of fore’gu transactions in leather will be double what it is now. They assume, of course, that there will be no absurd legislation to interfere w.th the busine s. The proposition a year or so ago to tax hides startled tho trade somewhat at tho time, but that has gone by and we canuot expect any interference in that quarter for several years to come. We shall expect the same steady increase in years to como that has been going on for the past six or eight years ” “English buyers of leather,” the samo journal goes on, “are now considered to he one of the regular factors of our market, and hardly a day passes that transactions in leather by these people are not recorded. The English leather commission merchant continues to solicit consignments of American leafier, and considerable Amer can leather is now going into this channel. ” The foreign demand for lea'.her is so strong and steady that it is looked to to raise prices As tho Recorder says: “The fact that larger quantities than usual of shoe materials are going out of the country will inevitably strengthen the determination of holders of leather to adhoro to their price, and to advance i's they can. ” Under the influence of cheap leather our boot and shoo indu try has developed, and machinery and methods have been invented which place us far ahead of Europe in capacity for rapid work. Our shoe-making machinery is even now being introduced into Europe. Mr, John T. Day, editor of the London Shoe and Leather Record , has recently been visiting this country. In speaking of his visit, the Boston Boot and Shoe Recorder says: “During his visit to America he has been investigating the methods of boot and shoe manufacturers in this country, and as a result will take home a mass of interesting information relative to it. In comparing English and American styles of work, editor Day states unhesitatingly that we are far ahead of our British cousins in tho use of modern machinery and in the manner of doing the work. ” Such have been tho beneficent results of free trade. But these results have not been reaped by foreigners alone, but in a much larger measure by our own people. Never were our shoes so well made and cheaply sold as to-day. The pasteboard soles and heels, so common just after the war. havo entirely disappeared, free raw material enabling our manufacturers to turn out cheaply shoes made entirely of leather. With the increased exports of leather there has been also a very groat increase in tho imports of raw hides. These imports last year reached nearly $22,000,000. It has certainly been of no disadvantage to our farmers that this large quantity of hides came into the country free. No one grows cattle for hides; and the valuo of the hide, is so small in comparison with the meat that it scarcely enters into calculation. If free hides have proven of so great benefit to the leather industry, giving it a large and stable foreign market, why would not equal benelits follow free wool?

American Horses In Europe.

McKinley pretended to see that our farmers were in danger of being flooded with too many cheap horses coming into the country from Canada Of course, the farmers aro themselves the principal buyers of horses, but McKinley dependod upon them to overlook that fact, an'd to be overwhelmed with gratitudo to him to find in the'“farmers’ tariff” that he raised the duty on horses. Under the old law, horses came in at 20 per cent, ad valorem. McKinley raised this duty to 30 per cent, on all horses valued at more than £l5O per head, and to £3O apiece on horses worth less than £l5O. These duties look like a sign of distress, like a confession that there is some ruinous outside competition. The following item from the Rural NewYorker, however, shows that the American horse can hold up his head among the pauper horses of Europe: “Shipping horses to Scotland from Philadelphia is becoming quite a business, 401) having been sent within the last few months. They all go to Aberdeen, where a dealer has opened large stables for the sale of American horses exclusively. The trade is expected to increase rapidly. The trotting horse is preferred, being used as a coach horse and roadster. It cost £3O for the transportation of each horse, besides £4O insurance on each animal valued at S2CO. But notwithstanding these heavy charges, which do not include the expenses to Aberdeen from Glasgow, the shippers realize a profit, and propose to push the trade.” McKinley’s horse duty, then, was only intended to fool farmers who lack hdrse sense.

Hay Prices and a Hay Trust.

When the McKinleyites doubled the duty on hay last year many farmers doubtless thought that higher prices for hay would now be in order. It ha) not worked any disadvantage yet to the farmers of New York State. A correspondent of the Rural New-Yorker tells why: “The price has for several years ranged from £lO to £l3 per ton to the grower, the buyer furnishing a press and the men to operate it, and the farmer furnishing the additional help and board for all hands, horse-feed and coal, and he has also had to deliver the bales to the cars. All this 'was quite satisfactory until last fall, when the three hundred hay dealers in this State formed a “trust, ” fixing the price at £7, and charging £1.75 per ton for baling, in caso the dealer ba:ed the hay and did not buy it Nor was this all; an irondad contract was produced lor me .farmer to sign, which gave the buyer

the.privtlogo of grading the hay at the car, and .many received only $5 or B*s for bay for which they expected $7. There was no use iu talking back after they had signed the contract, for the monopolists tould pay what they saw tit and the growefs were obliged to take it “All this naturally cau-ed a vigorous kick, and new presses wero bought by enterprising men. Most of the latter were approached by the trust men, who tried to iuduee them by various means not to press for farmers. The presses, however, have been constantly running, and some of the farmers have shipped their hay, while others have sold theirs where they saw lit. The hay dealers, however, had too good a thing, and stuck well to their trust, and go where one might, $7 was all they would offer, and they got plenty at that price, and, strange as it may seem, some old and very prosperous farmers have sold recently at that figure. ”

Protecting American Labor.

When the protected coal and coke operators of Pennsylvania had their great difficulty over wages some years ago, they got rid of their American labor and imported Hungarians and Italians by contract to take its place. This was the occasion for passing the national contract labor law, which forbids the employment of laborers in foreign countries and bringing them here under contract. The law was really a scheme to prevent protected American mine-owners from degrading American labor. The law was passed at the instance of Pennsylvania labor organizations, which were suffering from the competition of imported contract labor. These organizations hoard the usual amount of rot about protection of American labor; but they saw that a protective tariff law alone did not secure any benefit to labor. There must be a separate law to prevent the protected mine-owners from making contracts in Europe with “pauper labor,” to come here and take the place of native Americans, who should organize and attempt to enforce their demands for living wages. But tho mischief had already been done. Tho Pennsylvania mine-owners had already brought in large numbers of Hungarians and Italians; others followed rapidly, and for somo years now the Pennsylvania mines Iwivo been worked a'most entirely by hordes of ignorant foreigners, tho cheapest and most degraded labor in the United States. This labor, however, learned to writhe under its degradation. Tho worm trodden upon will turn. The imported labor learned to organize itself and move in a body for higher wages and a better standard of living. When, therefore, tho mine owners several months ago resolved to reduce wages, they were met by a domand from their imported Hungarians and Italians for an increase instead of a reduction. Then followed the great coal and coke strike with some 30,000 laborers out of work. Bloody riots followed and the troops had to be called out to keep the peace. Meanwhile, the strike had caused immense losses to both sides. At the end of the twelfth week, the estimated loss was $3,500,000, of which sum $1, 000,000 represented loss of wages to the men, and the remainder losses of the manufacturers —an average loss to all parties of about $300,000 per week. The latest news is to tho effect that a new supply of Italians, “most of them fresh from Europe,” is being shipped into tho coke region, “under a strong guard.” It was stated by the Italian leador of this band that there are American agents all over Italy trying to induce Italians to come to the United States. Several thousands of the poorest class have thus found their way to Pittsburg since the strike began, and, it is added, “just who pays their fares does not appear on the surface. ” Such is the fate of American labor under prQtection. And the organs and the talkers go on reirerating their stale and exploded assertions about protection raising wages.

Sugar Trust Pranks.

How is this? American granulated sugar is now selling at 3.75 cent 3 per pound, wholesale, in London, w'hile the wholesale price in New York is 4.12% to 4.25 cents. Last year the sugar trust was moving heaven and earth to get a higher duty than a half-cent per pound on reiined sugar, but the duty w r as fixed at that figure, notwithstanding that the efforts of the trust were powerfully backed up by Quay and Blccks-of-Five Dudley. But does the trust seem to be hurt? Not a bit. It bobs up serenely, and goes to selling sugar under the noses of its foreign rivals a half-cont a pound cheaper than in the home market, What is the sense in continuing any protection at <?11 to this trust? Another prank of the trust has been talked of in the trade papers recent y. In order to keep up its prices in the home market and keep out foreign sugar the trust has had in view a plan to make a discount of one-fourth of a cent per pound to all tho large wholesale dealers who will bind themselves not to handle any imported refined sugar. In tills way prices will be kept up to the domestic consumer, while the trust will unload its surplus on the foreign market at a reduced price, and will goon declaring big dividends upon its watered stock.

McKinley Tin Cans.

Certain protectionist organs have been printing the absured statement that tin cans are cheaper now than a year ago, before the prices of tiu plate had been affected by the tariff. A statement of that character will do for use in McKinley organs; but men in the packing business know that cans are dearer than they were. At the National Association of Canned Goods Packers, in Chicago, T. L. Bunting, a well known packer of Hamburg, N. Y., said that duty had advanced the cost of 2-lb. cans 8% cents per dozen. 3-lb. cans 10% cents per dozen, and gallon cans 12 cents per dozen. a Ho further stated that if no duty were imposed the packer could afford to pay the farmer 25 percent, more for produce than he pays now, and could still sell the goods at tho same price. McKinley's tin-plate tax is therefore especially burdensome to all farmers who raise fruits or vegetables for the canneries.

The Foreign Market.

The McKinleyites take every occasion to belittle the foreign market, but all the same tho foreign market goes on proving its value to our farmers. Our total exports of beef, hog, and dairy products during April reached a value of 59,536,059, against exports in April, 1800, of £9.379,706. The totals for the four months ending April 30 have increased from §42,148,694 for 1890 to £44,346,900 for 1891. The exports of breadstuffs during April were valued at

$12,373,857. asrainst $15,543,919 hi satfl® month last year For the ten months ending April 30 the breadstuffs exported were valued at $97,626,753, agalust *8126,170,289 the same time in'lß9o. Poor crops at home last year left a smaller surplus of breadstuffs for export than usual; but the foreign demand is now raising prices in the homo market.

The Cobder Club Dying.

If reports from Loudon are true tho McKinloyites are about to lose their favorite campaign cry. Tho Cobden Clnb is on its last legs. Tho London correspondent of tho New York Times says that tho famous club “is so hard up for funds that it is obliged again to omit its annual fish dinner at Greenwich, ” and that “it is not unlikely that it will expire altogether within tho noxt few years.” “The truth is, ” the correspondent goes on, “that tho club's mission seems to havo ended. It was founded in the first flush of the triumph of political economy over stupidity and ignoranco in England by men who fondly believed the rest of the worla was open to conviction by argument, as the English had shown themselves to be. They were going so to spread the light that soon all mankind would abandon those twin mediaeval ;~lies of barbarism, tariffs and wars. Tho dream was lofty, but it cruelly failed of realization. * * * Tho old generation of Englishmen who founded the club have mostly died off. The new generation do not burn with sacred enthusiasm to proselytize tho world. They see that England is making profits right and loft by the protectionist follies of her neighbors, and they are indisposed to spend money in dissipating those follies. Hence the Cobden Club may be described as on its last legs.” Not enough Cobden Club gold to buy a fish dinner? What in the world will tho McKinleyites do when they can no longer frighten the ignorant by shouting “Cobden Club”? They will be of all men most miserable, and no balm in Gilead can heal their hurt.

Does It Keep Wages High?

Protectionists coolly claim that protection not only raises but that it makes wages continue to go higher and higher. The tendency upward, they say, is permanent. If these advocates of protection will refer to the report of Carroll D. Wright, which ho issued in 1883 as Labor Commissioner for tho Stato of Massachusetts, they will find somo figures not much calculated to strengthen their case. Hero are the wages in somo of the protected industries of Massachusetts in 1800 and 1880: Average Weekly Wages. JBtSO. 1880. Boots and shoes ." $11.42 ©9.t',o Carpets '. 6.02 5,87 Clothing 8.20 8.81 Cottons 6.5) 7.37 Furniture 11.77 9.95 Leather 10.01 0.03 Linen and jute 4.63 4.82 Paper 8.63 8.17 811 k 5.91 5 87 Worsteds 6.10 5.60 Average in all Industries.... 48.00 ©7.52 When protectionists are putting forth their extravagant assertions about what protection has done for labor they ougiit to have the decency to add, “Except in Massachusetts.” They have been figuring on the thing in Massachusetts with the above result. The Stato printer has put the figures into type, and everybody can read it. No wonder that the old superstition that protection raises wages is dying out among the workpeople of Masachusetts.

Exporting Paper.

A trade paper announces that the Hudson Paver Paper and Pulp Company, at Corinth, N. Y., have an order from Meloourae, Australia, for 4,000 tons of printing paper, and are now shipping 100 tons per month. They are also sending large quantities of paper to New Zealand. Last year we exported paper and manufactures of paper to the value of about £1,200,000, and the figures for this year will be somewhat greator. Notwithstanding the ability of our paper manufacturers' to compete in the world’s markets, McKinley did not lower the paper duties at a single point. The old duties on common printing paper, sized or unsized, were retained, but on all tissue and copyiug papers the duties wero raised enormously. The old duties wero 20 and 25 per cent.; the McKinley duties areß cents a pound and 15 percent., equal to a single ad va orem duty of 90 per cent. Photographers’ paper was raised from 25 per cent, to 35, and envelopes from 25 to 30. Our paper makers are ab’o to lio’d their own in unprotecto 1 markets; where is the need for more protection in the home market? The McKinleyites liavo an itching to raise duties and can never be satisfied till they aro thus occupied.

The Tariff the Issue.

Senator Carlisle has recently been in New York. Asked while there whether the tariff would be the leading issue in 1892, he answered:

“I think so. It ought to be. and I sincerely hope that it will be. I think the Democratic party would make a serious m'stako if it allowed tho tariff question to be made second to the silver question or any other. It is the real issue. The party is a unit on that question, while on the silver question it is divided. That alone is one reason why tho fight should be made with that for the main issue. I hope the silver question will be laid aside or made secondary, leaving the tariff as the dominant issue.” The protectionists are forever referring to the nail industry as one of the special cases proving the wisdom of tho protective policy. It seems, however, that this child of the protective system does not insure to its laborers all the comfort and happiness which are said to be the certain result of encouraging domestic industry. At any rate a protectionist trade paper prints the following item: “A reduction of 16 per cent, in wages, to go into effect May 15, has been ordered by the Brook Nail Factory Company, of Reading, Pa.” The great State of Pennsylvania is reported to have raised 37,000,000 pounds of tobacco last year, and hasn’t a cigarette factory within her borders. We see no necessary connection between the two things here stated, but if llinois, with her immense cabbage Helds, should be reported without a cigarette factory, we could at once seo something wrong, a palpable neglect of industrial possibilities. Miixioxs of small, red transparent things, about the size of a pea, having long feelers and numerous legs, are found to inhabit the waters about 41 degrees south latitude and 49 degrees west longitude*

STRICTLY FOR INDIANA.

TAKE THE TIME TO READ ABOUT A GREAT STATE. I Injured While Foiling Logs—Co-Opera-tive Cheese factory— Paroled by tho Governor—New Albany No oil a Urick— Sudden Heaths. —Frankfort ox poets soon to set free delivery. —The usual fee for a spree in New Al.bany is 50.50. —A child at Fortville caught diphtheria from a cat and died. —Total sales of plants by Indiana florists last year $276,009.58. —Lulu Preefcr is tho second woman notary public in Clark County. —Clark County has twenty-three onearmed persons—all self-sustaining. —Tho Methodists are preparing to build a new church in New Albany. —The New Albany Council expects to increase the salaries of all city officers. —Charles Strand fell into an elevator shaft at Michigan City and was Killed —Dr. D. Pugin, of South Bend, predicts the world will come to an end in tho year 2062. —Andy Brown, prominent farmer, disappeared from his home near Martinsville. —They can't make bricks fast enough at New Albany to supply building demands. —Kokomo Strawboard Company will be prosecuted for polluting waters of the Wildcat. —Sherman Perkins, of Company E., Sixth Ohio Infantry, was found crazy wandering in Rising Sun. —Six-year-old Frank Fox waded oyer his head in St. Mary’s River at Fort Wayne, and was drowned. —Norton Brown, one of the wealthiest farmers in Floyd County, died at his home near Galena, aged 74. —A firemen’s tournament will be one of the features of tho Fourth of July celebration at Crawfordsville. —John Baker, Now Albany, took sugar of lead for cpsora salts and was retained on earth with great difficulty. —An unknown man about 70 years of age was run down by the Big Four eastbound passenger train at Colfax. —Conduit system for electric railways invented by Win. Bradley, Fort Wavne, awakening interest the country over. •—Women are not permitted to sell ribbons and corsets from house to house In New Albany without a city license. —Rev. J. W. Bird, of Charlestown, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church at Seymour. —Frank Bullet, a Claysburg boy, while being chewed up by a vicious bull dog, was rescued by a large Newfoundland dog. —Frank Smith, a traveling man of Indianapolis, drove off a bridge near Crawfordsville, and had bis thigh broken.

—A man in Montgomery County, when his child died, made inquiry if ho could get a second-hand coffin cheaper than a new one. —Tramps near Richmond took a has ket of groceries from a boy named John Johnson and then tied him to a tree in the woods. —Rain or shine, ’Squire Keigwin every day manages to kiss some Kentucky bride and get his name in the paper at Jeffersonville. —There are 207 members In the Crawfordsville Young Men’s Christian Association, which has been organized about four years. —Landlord Burnett, who was euchred out of his hotel at Logansport on a Dakota land deal, has “swapped back” by order of the court. —Aaron Hudson, Montgomery County, who, In attempting to commit suicide, severed his wind-pipe, is able to be up again and at work.

—The Cerealine Manufacturing Company at Columbus is erecting a §37,000 elevator, as a store-house for corn to be used in the manufacture of ccrcaline. —Panhandle Engineer John Manes, of Hartford City, has presented the Soldiers’ Home at Marion with one of the eagles captured at English lake, Porter County. —The §IO,OOO damage suit of Mrs. Elizabeth Gocdeekor, of New Albany, against the Mouon for killing J. B. Goedecker in the wreck near Mitchell, in February, 1890, has been compromised for §3,000. —Florence Boyd one,of the best known men in Clay Township, Wayne County, was perhaps fatally hurt while loading logs on a Pan-Handle car at Grccnsfork. A stake was thrown against his breast with such force as to knock him ten feet, injuring him internally. —At Amboy a peculiar and terrible accident befell Mrs. David Lemon. She started to a neighbor’s, and had walked but thirty yards when she was stricken totally blind. She was taken back home, and an hour later became a raving maniac. Before midnight she was dead. —ln 1825 Mrs. Elizabeth Daugherty reached Bartholomew County by way of Madison, and since that time until the other day had never been out of the county. She went down to Madison to see some relatives that have recenty moved there. She is one of the oldest inhabitants in the county. —Ted Ring, the Montgomery County desperado, who was serving a jail sentence in Parke County for beating his grandfather, broke jail and returned to Crawfordsville, where he was thrown out of a saloon and rearrested.

—Henry Schenk, of Montgomery County, made an attempt to commit suicide by jumping in the creek, but the water was not of sufficient depth, and he will be sent to the insane asylum, where he Lad been undergoing treatment ' „

—.Tames Maham, 50 years old, who was trying to break a colt at Peru, received a bad tall and will die. —Lucinda McKee and Martha Ann Darnell, of Bainbridge, are 81 years of age, and arc twins. They look alike, dress alike, were married within a year of each other, and were widows within three months of caeli other. Mrs. McKee is the mother of sixteen children, and Mrs. Darnell of fourteen.

—S. "Webber Smith, a farmer and stock dealer, residing one mile east of Columbus, recently sold to Eastman & Co., of Jersey Ciiy, 135 head of fat cattlo for $10,964. Ono fat steer wolghed 2,280 pounds. This is tho largest sale o. fat cattlo over made in Bartholomew County. The cattlo wero bought for export. —The 10-yoar-old daughter of Virgil Wolf, living pear Stamper’s Creek, eight miles southeast of Orleans, was burned to death. While tho mother was gone to tho spring for some water the daughter attempted to lift tho tea-kottlo from a hook in the fire-place, when her clothing caught fire and burned her so badly that the flesh fell from the bones. —Charles McMillcn, sent to the Southern prison for two years in March, 1890, from Parke Comity, for larceny, has been paroled by the Governor upon petition of tho court officials and many citizens, Including tho man from whom McMillon stole two revolvers, tho theft for which ho was soutencod. He Is only 17 years old, and was led into crimo by an older man, who is now serving a sentence at Michigan City. • —The better class of people in tho vicinity of Martinsville are determined to put an end to tho wholesale slaughter of lish in White River by dynamite. Thousands are being destroyed in this manner, and tho original sport of polofishing has been almost ruined. Tho other morning Bluoford James was arranged before the Mayor on a charge of fishing with dynamite and pleaded guilty. Ho was finod $lO and costs. Tho officers arc looking for several moro persons who are said to havo been engaged in tho same businoss. —A wood-house wan erected in tho yard of a country school in Montgomery County, and was painted. In a few days a saloon advertisement was painted on tho buildi»g f .and tho trustee promptly painted over it. In a few days an advertisement for a grocery was found on it, and again it was paintod over. Ono morning last weok it was f&und that tho Barnum show-bills had been pasted on the shed, and then all further attempts to keep tho building froo from advertisements were given up. —Seventeen months ago Willie, the 13-year-old son of Louis Affolder, a very prominent and respected citizen of Peru, disappeared, and since then not tho slightest trace has been obtained of his whereabouts, though his father expended a fortune in advertising and in detectlvo agencies. Tho other day Willie came home. Ho had spont his time seeing tho world In all largo cities, as was his intention when he ran away, lie spent tho last seven months In San Francisco; was in Chicago for the first two weeks working as messenger in a police station, during which time tho Chicago Pinkertons had tho case.

—Miss Mary H. Krout, one of tho lady managers of tho World’s Fair Commission from Indiana, had a narrow escape In a runaway in Crawfordsville. She was in a carriage on the way to tho Monon depot to return to Chicago. Tho driver left the horses standing In front of a hotel, and during his absenco tho team started rapidly down the street to tho ’bus stable. Turning tho corner, the wheel struck a telephone polo, and Miss Krout was violently thrown against tho side of tho vehicle. The horses were caught, and as the carriage failed to bo overturned, Miss Krout escaped with nothing worse than a scare and a bad shaking op. —George Mabbitt, a prominent farmer, was instantly killed by lightning while returning homo from Frankfort. Ills little boy occupied tho seat with him in the wagon, and escaped with a slight shock. One of tho horses was killed and the other badly injured. George Mabbitt was a cousin of the four Mabbitt children whose names have been so frequently before the public. Luella Mabbitt was murdered by her lover Green, who was brought back from Texas and lynched a few years ago. The other three children, Orvls, Mont, and Minnio were arrested last winter, charged with murdering Minnie's baby. She was acquitted and the two boys are awaiting thoir trial.

—A dastardly attempt was made to wreck the Pacific express on the Wabash railway,a mile cast of Wabash. A steel rail, lying in a rack at the side of the track,was thrown across the rails in such a manner as to derail any train passing. A huge bowlder, weighing five hundred pounds, was rolled upon the track fivo hundred feet further west. The express, running at the rate of fifty miles an hour, struck the rail, the engineer not perceiving It until he was nearly on it The truck wheels of the locomotive left the track, and ran along the tics for some distance. Fortunately the drivers held the rails, else the entire train would almost certainly have gone down a fortyfoot embankment —While engaged at plastering a highceiling at the Columbus St Denis Hotel, Charles Ross fell to the floor, some fifteen feet below, breaking his right arm and sustaining internal injuries. He will recover. —A student of Wabash College, while riding a bicycle down a hill, struck a man in the back and landed him at the bottom among several dozen eggs, which he was carrying. The student paid §1 for the broken eggs, and the man departed happy.

ITS A “DRY” DECISION".

' 1 ORIGIN A L-PACK AGE LAW MUST STAND. I'Hlcf Jiislici Fuller Interprets the Act of (iu Favor o>" tho Froh bitory States— Interesting Discussion of the n -latlve Powers of the State and Federal 1 awmaklug I exile*. The United States Supremo Court has lecidod that the original-package law passed by tho last 1 Congress was valid and constitutional, and that it wont into affect in all States where prohibitory laws prevailed without re-enactment by tho States of tho laws by which they forbade tho sa'o of Intoxicating liquors within thoir boundaries, whether imported from other States or not. Chief Justice Fuller lendored tho opinion of the court, and tho bench was united in support of the conclusions at which ho arrived, though Justlco Gray announced that Justices Harlan, Brewer and hinv self did not concur in all tho reasoning of tho opinion of the court. The case upon which tho decision was rendored was that of John M. Wilkerson, Sheriff of Shawnee County. Kansas, vs. Charles A. Rahrer, brought here on appeal from tho decision of tho Circuit Court of the United Statos for tho district of Kansas, against tho Stato. llnhror was tho original-packago agent at Topeka, Kan., of the firm of Maynard, Hopkins & Co. of Kansas City, Mo., and was arrested tho day after tho original-package law went into effect, lie claimod that tho law was unconstitutional and also that It could not go into operation until the Stale had ro-enactocl its prohibitory laws. The court says tho power of the Stato to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in the promotbn of tho publ'c health, good order and prosperity is a power always belonging to the States, not surrendered to them by the General Government, nor directly restrained by tho Constitution of tho United States, and essentially exclusive. The power of Congress to regulate commerce among the several States when the subjects are national in their naturo, the court says, Is also exclusive. The Constitution does not provido that interstalo comtnerco shall bo free, but by tho grant of this exclusive powor to regulate It It was left free except as Congress might undertake 1o regulate It. Therefore, it has been determined In Robbins vs. Shelby Taxing District that tho failure of Congress to exercise this exclusive powor in any case Is an expression of its will Unit the subject shall be tree from restrictions or Impositions upon it by tho several Stitos, and if a Stato law comes In conflict with tho will of Congress tho Stato and Congress cannot occupy the position of equal opposing sovereignties because the Constltut on doclurcs its supremacy and that of laws passed In pursuance thereof. The court says that Intoxicating liquors are undoubtedly subjects of commerce, liko any other commodity, and aro so recognized, but nevertheless It has boon often held that laws prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquor within Stato limits do not necessarily infringe any constitutional privilege or immunity, this right being vested, as iu the Mugior caso, upon tho acknowledged r ght of the Slates to control thoir puro y internal aflairs, If in sodolng they protect tho health, morals, and safety of thoir people by regulations that do not Interfere with tho powors of tho General Government.

Tho present case arises upon tho theory of ropugnanco between the Stato law and interstate commerce clause of tho Con dilution, and Involves a distinction between tho cerumeiclal power and tho police power which, though quite distinguishable when thoy do not approach each other, are sometimes, like the colors, so nearly allied as to perplex the understanding as tho colors do tho vision. , The court says the lowa laws hold to he unconstitutional in the Loisy originalpaekago case were enacted in the exorcise of the State’S police power and not ut all as regulations of interstate commerce, but as It amounted In effect to a regulation of such commerce, it was hold that so long as Congr. ss did not pass any law to regulate specifically the traffic between the States in Intoxicating liquors, or act in such a way as to allow State laws to operate upon it, Congress thereby indicated its w.ll that such common e should bo free and untiammoled, and therefore that tho laws of lowa wero inoperative so far a- they amounted to regulations of foreign or Interstate commerce In inhibiting tho reception of such articles within the State, or their sale upon arrival In tho form In which Imported. It followed as a corollary that, when Congress acted at all, the result of Its action must be to oporato as a restraint upon that perfect freedom which its silence insured. ( ongress has now spoken, and declared that Imported liquon sha 1 upon arrival In a State fall within the category of domestic articles of a similar nature. Continuing, tho Court says: The laws of Congress did not use term* of permission to the Stato to act, but simply removed an Impediment to the enforcement of the Htata laws In respect to Imported packages in their original condition, created by the absence of a specific utterance on Its part. It Imparted no power to the State not then possessed, but allowed Imported property to fall at once, upon the local jurisdiction. ' The liquor arrived In Kansas prior to the passage of the act of Congress, but thero Is no question presented of the right of the Importer to withdraw the property from the Btate, nor is It perceived that the Congressional enactment Is given a retrospective operation by holding It applicable to a transaction occurring after it took effect. It Is not tho case of a law enacted in the unauthorized exerclso of a power exclusively confided to Congress, but of a law which It was competent for the State to pass but which could not operate upon articles occupying a certain situation until the passage of the act of Congress. That act removes tho obstacle, and no adequate ground Is perceived for holding that a .re-enactment of the State law was required before it could have the effect upon imported which it had always had upon domestic property. Jurisdiction attached, not In virtue of the law of Congress, but because that law placed the property where jurisdiction could attach.

Mrs. Green Gets a Divorce.

At Now York Judge O’Brien granted an absolute divorce to Mrs. Laura Green from Douglass Green, the latter making no defense. Counsel were directed to submit affidavits upon the subject of alimony, a point which the court has not yet decided. Green, a former partner of Commodore Bateman, went to Europe, It will be remembered, upward of a year ago, with Mrs. Alice Snell MoCrea, of Chicago, and has since continued hls residence there. In February* 1890, Green committed bigamy by marrying Mrs. McCroa at Fortress Mo.iron.